Feminist Poem for Marilyn Monroe

There are no photos
of Marilyn Monroe
Just images of her lovers
Ed Clark not the once-young
negro abstract expressionist
Painted himself as Marilyn
Bent at the hip, arched back
in white Griffith Park her ass
Some tribute her one must presume face ordered dilute
Later as she lay back nude one hand
dissolving at the waist Clarke rakes
Furious spilling the end of the poem on the edge of the frame.